Many current neurophysiological, psychophysical, and psychological approaches to vision rest on the idea that when we see, the brain produces an internal representation of the world. The activation of this internal representation is assumed to give rise to the experience of seeing. The problem with this kind of approach is that it leaves unexplained how the existence of such a detailed internal representation might produce visual consciousness. An alternative proposal is made here. We propose that seeing is a way of acting. It is a particular way of exploring the environment. Activity in internal representations does not generate the experience of seeing. The outside world serves as its own, external, representation. The experience of seeing occurs when the organism masters what we call the governing laws of sensorimotor contingency. The advantage of this approach is that it provides a natural and principled way of accounting for visual consciousness, and for the differences in the perceived quality of sensory experience in the different sensory modalities. Several lines of empirical evidence are brought forward in support of the theory, in particular: evidence from experiments in sensorimotor adaptation, visual \"filling in,\" visual stability despite eye movements, change blindness, sensory substitution, and color perception.

A sensorimotor account of vision and visual consciousness-Authors' Response-Acting out our sensory experience

Thank you for reading internet addiction a handbook and guide to evaluation and treatment. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look numerous times for their chosen novels like this internet addiction a handbook and guide to evaluation and treatment, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some malicious bugs inside their computer.

Internet Addiction A Handbook And Guide To Evaluation And Treatment

Women in German Yearbook I. Feminist Studies and German Culture@@@The New Feminist Criticism. Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory

The Messenger Lectures at Cornell University were instituted in 1924 by Hiram J. Messenger ‘to provide a course or courses of lectures on the evolution of civilization for the special purpose of raising the moral standard of our political, business and social life’. In November 1964, Feynman gave seven lectures, extempore with the help of brief notes, on ‘The Character of Physical Law’. The transcripts were prepared and published by BBC in 1965.

The Character of Physical Law

Sur l'ecriture et la lecture des femmes a partir du concept de "misreading" d'H. Bloom. Le peu de serieux accorde a l'ecriture et a la lecture des femmes: contribution a la misogynie du monde des lettres et a l'exclusion d'un certain nombre d'oeuvres. L'oeuvre de C. P. Gilman et L. Keating Gaspell temoigne de la difficulte qu'il y a a dechiffrer le monde conceptuel et symbolique des femmes. Bloom a masque l'existence d'une tradition tout a fait autre ou les femmes s'enseignent reciproquement a lire et a ecrire sur et en dehors de leur contexte.

A Map for Rereading: Or, Gender and the Interpretation of Literary Texts in On Narrative and Narratives: II.

"Listen to my tale": Multilevel Structure, Narrative Sense Making, and the Inassimilable in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Today digital sources supply an unprecedented component of human sensorimotor data, the consumption of which is correlated with poorly understood maladies such as Internet Addiction Disorder and Internet Gaming Disorder. This paper offers a mathematical understanding of human sensorimotor processing as multiscale, continuous-time vibratory interaction. We quantify human informational needs using the signal processing metrics of entropy, noise, dimensionality, continuity, latency, and bandwidth. Using these metrics, we define the trust humans experience as a primitive statistical algorithm processing finely grained sensorimotor data from neuromechanical interaction. This definition of neuromechanical trust implies that artificial sensorimotor inputs and interactions that attract low-level attention through frequent discontinuities and enhanced coherence will decalibrate a brain's representation of its world over the long term by violating the implicit statistical contract for which self-calibration evolved. This approach allows us to model addiction in general as the result of homeostatic regulation gone awry in novel environments and digital dependency as a sub-case in which the decalibration caused by digital sensorimotor data spurs yet more consumption of them. We predict that institutions can use these sensorimotor metrics to quantify media richness to improve employee well-being; that dyads and family-size groups will bond and heal best through low-latency, high-resolution multisensory interaction such as shared meals and reciprocated touch; and that individuals can improve sensory and sociosensory resolution through deliberate sensory reintegration practices. We conclude that we humans are the victims of our own success, our hands so skilled they fill the world with captivating things, our eyes so innocent they follow eagerly.

Sensory Metrics of Neuromechanical Trust

Today digital sources supply a historically unprecedented component of human sensorimotor data, the consumption of which is correlated with poorly understood maladies such as Internet addiction disorder and Internet gaming disorder. Because both natural and digital sensorimotor data share common mathematical descriptions, one can quantify our informational sensorimotor needs using the signal processing metrics of entropy, noise, dimensionality, continuity, latency, and bandwidth. Such metrics describe in neutral terms the informational diet human brains require to self-calibrate, allowing individuals to maintain trusting relationships. With these metrics, we define the trust humans experience using the mathematical language of computational models, that is, as a primitive statistical algorithm processing finely grained sensorimotor data from neuromechanical interaction. This definition of neuromechanical trust implies that artificial sensorimotor inputs and interactions that attract low-level attention th...

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"Listen to my tale": Multilevel Structure, Narrative Sense Making, and the Inassimilable in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Sensory Metrics of Neuromechanical Trust

Sensory Metrics of Neuromechanical Trust